Definition

a forest (perhaps as furnishing the material for fabric)

Etymology

from H2790 (חָרַשׁ);

Word family

• חָרַשׁ chârash

How the KJV renders it

• bough
• forest
• shroud
• wood

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.